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The lost diaries of Susanna Moodie: a novel

✍ Scribed by Cecily Ross

Publisher
HarperCollins Canada;Harper Avenue
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
263 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1443450197

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✦ Synopsis

Engrossing historical fiction for readers of The Bride of New France and The Birth House, about one of Canada's most inimitable pioneers and her struggles to survive in the wilderness, brought beautifully to life in this accomplished debut

Teetering on the edge of gentile poverty, Englishwoman Susanna Moodie agrees to leave her behind her growing career as a writer to follow her husband from her beloved Suffolk to the backwoods of Canada. John Moodie is an ebullient man with a weakness for money-making schemes, and he is convinced that riches await them in the New World. It is the 1830s, and despite their dreams, Susanna is woefully unprepared for life in the wilderness. Her true story of hardship and survival in a log cabin deep in the bush is part of our national mythology. Now, respected writer and editor Cecily Ross ?gives us an unprecedented fictional portrait of Susanna--the sister, the wife, the mother, the writer, a woman confronting both the...

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